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Acknowledgments I am grateful to several individuals and institutions who supported me during the years that I researched and wrote this book. From the beginning, Dr. Leila J. Rupp and Dr. Susan M. Hartmann have been staunch supporters; I am deeply grateful to both of them. To the anonymous readers of the manuscript, I thank you for your time and effort; your critiques and comments greatly improved this book. My data gathering for this book was made possible by funds from several sources at The Ohio State University: the Ruth Higgins Award of the Department of History; the Alumni Research Award of the Graduate School; and the Elizabeth D. Gee Fund for Research on Women Award of the Department of Women’s Studies. I would like to thank the Journal of Women’s History for allowing me to reprint my article “Prostitute or Patriot: The Representation of American Women’s Sexuality in Popular Literature during WWII” (vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1998), which appears here as chapter 5. In the course of my research, many individuals made this enormous task a bit easier. I am particularly grateful to David Klassen at the Social Welfare History Archives Center of the University of Minnesota; Bill Creech, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., who introduced me to the records of the Social Protection Division; Barry Yerby, at the National Archives Center in College Park, Maryland, who went above and beyond anything a researcher could expect as he assisted me with the records of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Bertha Ihnat at The Ohio State University; and the people at the Rockefeller Archives , who were quite helpful during my time there. My research took me to several other sites; to all those who provided assistance, I offer my thanks. As I transformed this project from a dissertation to a book, several colleagues and friends were very helpful. I thank especially Birgitte Soland, Donna Guy, David Staley, Jessica Pliley, James Lenaghan, and ix Rob Faber. It was my good fortune to find freelance editor Judy Duguid, who polished the manuscript, and Deborah Gershenowitz, Senior Editor at NYU Press, whose enthusiasm for the book and the final stages of its publication are gratifying. To all of you, and to many others in Columbus and at NYU Press, thanks for caring and for lending your talents. Several special people in my life provided needed encouragement throughout the process. To my sister, Ginger, I say thank you; I am fortunate to have you for a sister. To my daughters, who always believed their mother was “smart,” I offer my heartfelt thanks. My work has benefited from Leila Rupp’s keen insight, her excellent suggestions, and her belief in my scholarly ability. In addition to the academic, scholarly, and professional support Leila provided during the past years, she kept me going whenever my spirits sagged; I will be forever grateful. And last, but assuredly not least, I want to say much more than thank you to Suzanne Damarin, without whom none of this would have been possible. Thank you for sharing the good times and the hard times. Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge; our conversations have enriched my work and my thinking. Thank you for supporting me in so many ways over the years, for believing in me when I found it difficult to believe in myself. And finally, thank you for loving me. x | Acknowledgments ...

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